[43] _Avetarda_ is old Spanish, the modern spelling being _Abutarda_. [44] A large number of horsemen inevitably excites suspicion in game unaccustomed to see more than three or four men together. [45] The horses, if ground permits, may be utilised as "stops" to extreme right and left of the drive, otherwise they must be concealed in some convenient hollow in charge of a boy or two. [46] We know of no other bird that increases thus in weight anticipatory of the breeding-season, nor are we at all sure that it is the swollen neck that explains that increase. [47] We have never succeeded in inducing our tame bustards to breed in captivity. [48] Dampier, _New Voyage round the World_, 2nd ed., i. p. 71; London, 1699. [49] Dampier's visit to the Cape de Verde Islands took place in September, when, of course, flamingoes would not be nesting. [50] We also observed in Equatoria a second species, smaller and red all over, _Phoenicopterus minor_. This, however, was far less numerous; the great bulk of East-African flamingoes were the common _Ph. roseus_. [51] It is right to add that in America the growth of mangrove and other bushes, sometimes in close proximity to the nests, offers facilities to the photographer that are wholly wanting in Spain, where the flamingo only nests in perfectly open waters devoid of the slightest covert or means of concealment. [52] _Gaitero_ is the word used. The _gaita_ is a musical instrument which we may translate as bagpipes. [53] For notes on these subjects, we are indebted to Mr. Carl D. Williams. [54] Boabdil, we read, was a keen hunter, and during his sojourn at Besmer frequently spent weeks at a time among the mountains with his hawks and hounds. [55] _La Alpujarra_, by Don Pedro A. de Alarcón (4th edition, Madrid, 1903). [56] Several of these animals, moreover, yield excellent fur. [57] These mountains are believed to overlie vast store of subterranean wealth in the form of petroleum. Geologists seem agreed upon that; but they differ as to the precise locality of the treasure or whence it may most conveniently be exploited. [58] We have a number of pinsápos growing in Northumberland. They were planted some ten years ago on a cold northern exposure, and are now flourishing vigorously, some having reached a height of eight or ten feet. Nearly all tend to throw up numerous "leaders" as described. [59] Pinsápo timber is fairly hard, but too "knotty" for general purposes, and it is useless for charcoal. Yet these glorious forests are being sacrificed wholesale because the wood affords "good kindling" for the charcoal-furnace--can wasteful wantonness further go? That the only existing forests of the kind on earth should be ruthlessly destroyed for no single object but to provide _kindling_ passes understanding.